Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Languages Represented:
English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Manuscripts Division. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the reader.

The Norris family papers consist of letters addressed to Charles and Kathleen Norris, primarily by other authors; MSS of articles,
short stories, novels and an autobiography by Kathleen Norris; and a MS of a play by Charles G. Norris. They were given to
The Bancroft Library by Dr. and Mrs. Frank Norris (son and daughter-in-law) in June 1969.

A list of the major correspondents represented in the collection follows.

Container List

Carton 1

Kathleen Norris manuscripts

Articles, poems, autobiography, novels and novellas.

Carton 2

Kathleen Norris manuscripts

Novels and novellas

Carton 3

Kathleen Norris manuscripts

Short stories, A-M

Carton 4

Kathleen Norris manuscripts

Short stories, M-Z, plays

Charles G. Norris manuscript, play

Clippings

Miscellany

portfolio Portfolio

Correspondence

Partial List of Correspondents

Miscellany (single letters)

Antheil, George, 1900-

Feb. 1928

Archibald, Gilda

n.d.

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn)

ca. 1923

Brett, George Platt, 1858-1936

Mar. 4, 1919

Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956

n.d.

Brush, Katharine, 1902-

May 16, n.y.

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944

June 17, [1925]

[Creel], Blanche [Bates]

n.d.

Creel, George

Oct. 17, 1923

Curtis Brown, Ltd.

July 29, 1952

Dell, Floyd, 1887-

Apr. 9, 1930

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

July 29, 1918

Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

Oct. 26, 1930

Ferber, Edna, 1887-

n.d.

Flavin, Martin, 1883-

Nov. 22, 1943

Forbes, James, 1871-1938

n.d.

Fox, Beauvais

Aug. 19, 1942

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

Oct. 24, 1921

George, Walter Lionel, 1882-1926

Oct. 5, 1923

[Goldberg, Reuben Lucius], 1883-

n.d.

Hamilton, Cosmo, d. 1942

n.d.

Hampden, Walter

n.d.

Hart, Frances (Noyes), 1890-

Aug. 3, 1926

Hoover, Herbert Clark, Pres. U.S., 1874-1964

Aug. 26, 1942

Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939

Apr. 1, 1930

Irwin, Wallace, 1875-1959

Jan. 21, 1923

Irwin, William Henry, 1873-1948

Jan. 11, 1929

Johnson, Hiram Warren, 1866-1945

Dec. 19, 1928

Kaufman, George S., 1889-

Apr. 28, 1925

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-

Mar. 30, 1933

Lamont, Corliss, 1902-

Apr. 6, 1943

Landis, R. G.

Dec. 5, 1941

Lewis, Oscar, 1893-

Feb. 9, 1944

Lloyd, Harold

Mar. 20, 1929

McCardell, Roy Larcom, 1870-

June 20, 1922

McClure, Samuel Sidney

Mar. 20, 1923

Macfarlane, Peter Clark, 1871-1924

May 14, 1922

Marquand, John Phillips, 1893-1960

June 21, 1941

Additional Note

Written on behalf of the Writers' Committee, United China Relief, Inc.